I have some qualms about the term “plant-based”. Though we have seen a few versions of the term in discourse, for the sake of consistency in this piece, I am going to remove the quotations and use the hyphenated spelling.

Derick the Dog suffered a very serious injury to his left paw during a routine trip to Home Sense with his auntie Bridget, while his mom was on vacation. To be brief, his toes got caught in the top feed of the escalator and were broken off.